Historical Career
Souza has written his PhD thesis, published as Medieval Goa (Delhi, Concept Publ. Co., 1979;First Portuguese edition: Lisboa, Ed. Estampa, 1994; 2nd updated English edition: Panaji, Goa1556 + Broadway Book Centre, 2009) challenges the view that Portuguese rule in South Asia resulted in a period of golden rule in Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Sees "Golden Goa" as an expression popularised by art historians with reference to baroque church architecture of the early centuries of the Portuguese rule. He is the author and editor of many books and research papers. His partial memoirs are penned in a book titled Goa To Me (New Delhi, Concept,1994).
On completion of 60 years, Souza was felicitated with a festschrift edited by C.J. Borges, S.J. and M. N. Pearson, Metahistory: History questioning History, Lisboa, Nova Vega, 2007, pp. 606 containing personal tributes and 43 research papers contributed by historians and social scientists from the world over. The Lusophone University of Lisbon awarded him its Gold Medal of Merit on the same occasion in recognition of his research, teaching, and critical appreciation and promotion of Lusophony.
Teotonio R. de Souza continues to publish in Portuguese and in English on his favourite area of research related to colonial and post-colonial themes, with particular reference to Portuguese in Asia. His authority in this field has at times been hijacked by unseemly elements and without his knowledge or approval. Since November 2008 has been contributing a forthnightly OpEd column to the Goan daily HERALD. Entitled «Historical Explorations» it seeks to link Goa and Portugal, past and present. A sampling of his writings may be consulted online at and at the, the online scientific repository of the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa.
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